Primitive Time-reckoning / A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

by Martin P. Nilsson

INDEX.

Acronychal risings and settings, [5]
Age, classes of, [99];
ignorance of, [98];
relative, [98]
Agricultural cycles of seasons, [66];
festivals, [268], [337];
year, [91], [95]
Anglo-Saxon seasons, [75];
months and year, [292]
Apollo, festivals of, [363];
and the Greek calendar, [366]
Arabic lunisolar year, [251];
month-names, [237];
names for days of the month, [165]
Astrology, [119];
origin of, [146]
Astronomers, primitive, [350], [351]
Babylonian designation of years, [105];
intercalation, [258];
months, [226]
Beginning of the year, see [New Year].
Bilfinger on the Icelandic week-year, [78], n. 1;
on the Anglo-Saxon year, [295]
Birds of passage, [46]
Calendar, Greek star-c., [114];
Indian picture-writing c., [103]
Calendar-makers, [347]
Canaanitish month-names, [233]
Constellations, [114]
Continuous time-reckoning, [8], [359]
Counting, [168];
aids in, [319];
of days, [168];
of months, [148], [217]
Dagsmǫrk, [21]
Dawn = day, [13]
Day, of 24 hours, [11];
limits of, [43];
solar, stellar, [3];
as unit of time-reckoning, [3]
Day, times of, [17];
expressions for, [22];
indications of, [17]
Days, counting of: in dawns, [13];
in days, [14];
in nights, [13];
in sleeps, [15];
in suns, [12]
Decades, [168]
Delphi, influence on the calendar, [365]
Dieteris, [1]
Disting, [302]
Dry and rainy seasons, [54], [88];
two, [62]
Easter, computation of, [301]
Ebb and flow, [39]
Egyptian designation of years, [107];
year, [277]
End of the year, [268]
Ennaeteris, [364]
Epiphany moon, [301]
Eponyms, [107]
Equinoxes, observation of, [313]
Extracalation, [244], [360]
Fasti, Greek, [365]
Feriae conceptivae, [340]
Festivals, agricultural and new year, [268];
cycles of, [337];
months named after, [345];
regulated by the moon, [341];
by the solstices, [344];
by the stars, [133]
First-fruits, [269]
Full moon, celebration of, [155];
the time of festivals, [342]
Germanic division of the year, [75];
month-names, [288];
seasons, [74]
Gestures indicating days, [12];
time of the day, [17]
Gezer, calendar of, [235]
Gnomon, [20]
Greek division of the month, [168];
expressions for times of the day, [34];
observation of the solstices, [316];
of the stars, [110];
seasonal points, [46];
seasons, [72];
calendar, [362]
Half-years, reckoning in, [75], [78], [87]
Hammurabi, letter of, [263]
Heliacal risings and settings, [5]
Hesiod, [46], [112]
Homer, [34], [110], [316]
Hour, origin of, [43]
Icelandic (cp. Scandinavian) designation of times of the day, [21];
months, [297];
seasons, [75];
week-year, [78], [370]
Indo-European expressions for times of the day, [31];
notion of the year, [97];
seasons, [71]
Intercalary cycle, Babylonian, [259];
Greek, [363]
Intercalation (cp. month, intercalary,) cyclical, [362];
in Greece, [368];
empirical, [243], [359];
origin of, [240];
pre-Mohammedan, [253];
regulated by the solstices, [265];
by the stars, [247]
Israelitish festivals at full moon, [341];
intercalation, [244];
months, [233];
new year, [272]
King in charge of the calendar, [352]
Knots, [104], [320]
Kugler on Babylonian intercalation, [260]
Landmarks indicating times of the day, [21];
for observation of solstices and equinoxes, [311]
Latin expressions for times of the day, [37];
star-names, [113]
Lunar month, see [Month].
Lunar months of European peoples, [294], [304], [305]
Markets, in Arabia, [251];
in Canaan, [334]
Market-week, [324]
Measures of time, [42]
Monsoons, [57], [87]
Month, [147];
division of, [155], [159];
halving of, [166];
tripartite division of, [167];
quarters of, [170];
intercalary, [243];
of the Wadschagga, [203];
lunar, [5];
number of days in, [149];
sidereal, [4];
synodic, [5]
Month-names, [174];
from festivals, [345];
from seasons and occupations, [218], [227];
from stars, [227], [247];
absence of, [223];
multiplicity of, [222];
old Greek, [364];
pairs of, [224];
popular European, [282];
variability of, [221]
Months, counting of, [148], [217];
numbering of, [188], [233];
series of, [174];
incomplete, [240], [246];
Semitic, [226]
Moon (cp. full moon, new moon) course of, [147];
invisibility of, [149];
phases of, [151], [155];
smaller phases, [159];
position of, [150];
time counted by, [16]
Mountains as landmarks, [21]
Nasi, [253]
New moon, celebration of, [151]
New moons, counting in, [151], [235]
New Year, [8], [91], [267];
Egyptian, [278];
festivals of, [268]
Night, parts of, [39];
times of, indicated by the stars, [40]
Nights, counting in, [13]
‘Noon-line’, [21]
Nundinae, [333]
Oktaeteris, [1], [363]
Olympiads, [364]
Pars pro toto counting, [358];
of days, [16];
of weeks, [358];
of years, [92]
Picture-writings, [103]
Planets, [120], [124]
Plant as sun-dial, [19]
Pleiades the, as indicating seed-time, [134];
special significance of, [129]
Pleiades-year, [275]
Priests as calendar-makers, [350]
Qalammas, [253]
Quarters of the moon, [170]
Rainy and dry seasons, [54], [88];
two, [62]
Sabbath, [329]
Scandinavian (cp. Icelandic, Swedish) divisions of the day, [21];
observation of solstices, [316];
seasons, [74];
week-reckoning, [80]
Schools of astronomy, [354]
Seasonal points, [46]
Seasons, [45];
cycles of, [65];
number: two, [54];
two or three, [72], [75];
three, [64];
four or five, [58], [63];
six, [60];
s. and months, [218];
regulation of, [70];
subdivision of, [61], [72]
Sea-voyages, stars a guide to, [125], [353]
Shabattu, [329]
Shadow, time of day reckoned according to, [19]
Shifting method of time-reckoning, [8]
Solstices, [220];
festivals regulated by, [344];
months regulated by, [265];
observation of, [311]
Stars, [109];
festivals regulated by, [133];
a guide to sea-voyages, [125], [353];
months named after, [227], [247];
new year determined by, [275];
omens of weather, [125], [130], [140], [143];
risings and settings of, [5], [128];
other phases, [129];
time of the night, [40];
time of the year indicated by, [128]
Summer and winter, [54], [89]
Summer day, the, [81]
Sun = day, [13]
Sun (cp. solstices and equinoxes), seed-time indicated by, [317];
time of day indicated by the position of, [17]
Swedish (cp. Scandinavian) lunar months, [302], [304];
month-names, [299];
quarter-years, [80]
Tally, [104], [168], [320]
Tetraeteris, [1]
Tille on the division of the Germanic year, [77]
Time-indications, [9];
concrete, [355];
discontinuous and ‘aoristic’, [9], [356]
Time-reckoning, methods of, [8]
Units of time-reckoning, [3]
Weather, stars as omens of, [125], [130], [140], [143]
Webster on the sabbath, [335]
Week, seven-day, [333]
Week-year, [78], [370]
Weidner on Babylonian intercalary cycles, [259]
Weinhold on the Germanic seasons, [76]
Wind-seasons, greater, [57];
shorter, [85]
Winter and summer, [54], [89];
w. the time of festivals, [339]
Winter day, the, [81]
Winters, years counted in, [9]
Year, [86];
agricultural, [91], [95], [96];
Egyptian, [277];
incomplete, [89], [223], [240];
stellar, [4];
stellar, of primitive peoples, [93], [275];
tropic, [4]
Years, counting of, [92];
designation of y. after events, [99];
after rulers etc., [101], [107]
Yule-moon, [301]